Improvement in churns



D. L. EPPERSON.

CHURN'.

No. WZAOE. Patented Jan.18,187s.

WHTNESSES s ILPEFEHS, PHOTO-UTMOGRAFHER. WASHINGTQN, D C,

ITNTTED STATES DAVID L. EPPERSON, 0F MILL SHOALS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l72,405, dated January 18, 1876; application filed May 15, 1675.

T0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID L. EPPERSON, of Mill Shoals, White county, Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Ghurn, o t' which the following is a specification:

rIhis invention consists of a dasher in the form ot' a reaction water-Wheel, which receives the Water at the center ofthe top and discharges it at the periphery, the dasher being geared with a crank-shaft, so as to be rapidly revolved, and thus cause the cream to flow rapidly and continuously into the wheel at the top, through and outot' it at the periphery, and back to the top, by which it churns the crean) into butter in a very short time.

Figure l is a sectional elevation ot my improved churn, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section ot' the wheel.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending` parts.

A is a case of any approved form, in which is the dasher B, which consists ot' a disk, C, at the bottom ofthe shaft, a ring, D, a short distance above it, and the cycloidal buckets E, between the ring and the disk, all connected to the shaft Il, which is geared with the handcrank G, to be revolved.

I am aware that a dasher drawing up milk at the bottom by suction, and then expelling it centrit'ugally from the rod out through the sides, is not new; but the effect oi' my device is very different from this. ot' butter are lighter than milk, they must take position in the upper portion ot' liquid, and, in

l top and bottom experimentally, and t'ound that the result was markedly different; hence What I claim is- A rotary churn-dasher Formed ot' disk C, curved buckets E, and the top ring D, to indraw the cream centrally at top and force it through curved side apertures at the side, as

and for the purpose specified.

DAVID L. EPPERSON. Witnesses:

D. T. SMITH, WM. J. SMITH.

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